Hong Kong Palace Museum | HKPM Special Exhibition Talk Series | Rethinking the Origins of Civilisation

Dr Adam Craig Schwartz 

Associate Professor
Department of Chinese Language and Literature
Hong Kong Baptist University

Dr Schwartz holds a PhD degree in East Asian Languages and Civilisations (Chinese) from the University of Chicago. He currently serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, and Associate Director of the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology of Hong Kong Baptist University. He undertook advanced training at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, focusing on Ancient Egyptian Language and Civilisation, and possesses expertise in conducting comparative studies. Dr Schwartz specialises in early Chinese civilisation, with an emphasis on oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and bamboo manuscripts.

Dr Peng Peng 

Assistant Professor
Faculty of Arts
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr Peng holds a PhD and an MA from Princeton University, an MA and a BA from Peking University. His research centres on the art, archaeology, visual and material cultures of ancient East Asia. His first book, Metalworking in Bronze Age China: The Lost-Wax Process published by Cambria Press in 2020, has been well received in the academic world. His second book, Origins: Copper and Bronze Metallurgy in Early China is under contract with Amsterdam University Press. 

Dr Raphael Wong

Associate Curator
Hong Kong Palace Museum

Dr Raphael Wong is a Bei Shan Tang Foundation Scholar with a DPhil in archaeology from the University of Oxford. His research focuses mainly on artistic and cultural exchanges between China, West Asia, and the Steppe of the first millennium BC.  He has led the curation of Bank of China (Hong Kong) Presents: “The Origins of Chinese Civilisation” and “Radiance: Ancient Gold from the Hong Kong Palace Museum Collection and the Mengdiexuan Collection” among other exhibitions at the Hong Kong Palace Museum.